Random thoughts on the topics I spend most of my time thinking about: the steady deterioration of our freedom, the importance of the Bill of Rights, and the joys of travel.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Could we have an upset in the making?

I'm increasingly repulsed by the idea that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton might be the next President.
Is it even possible for the American people to be so stupid?
Alas, I fear it may be so.

The only bright spots amidst all the doom-and-gloom are the occasional reports from here or there that
Republican defectors who vow #NeverTrump and Democratic defectors who would have voted for Sanders but not
Clinton are all looking for a place to roost.
If many of them find Johnson/Weld, we could have an upset on our hands.
No, I'm not counting on it, but I can hope, can't I?

Indeed, the team of fiscally-tight ex-Republican governors (Johnson ran NM, Weld MA) are also social liberals
and outlaws.
Both cut taxes and spending while in office and trimmed the size of their respective state governments.
Johnson proudly admits to having smoked MJ, not just in the past, but currently, and thinks the
current drug laws need to be repealed.
There's a lot to like about both, and there's a lot to like by Berners as well as awakening Republicans.
For those who are anti-war, Johnson/Weld are the only reliably non-interventionist candidates
in the race but they're not yet 'qualified for the debates' because most pollsters
don't list them by name, just 'other'.

If they can be slid into the debates (if any) between Clinton and Trump, they will truly be 'the adults
in the room', because both Clinton and Trump are supporting policies and platforms that are nothing
more than 'more of the same, but bigger'.
You can count on U.S. involvement in the Middle East growing dramatically if either Clinton or Trump
wins the White House.
Each of them has already promised to take us back to war.

It would change the face of American politics permanently should either Hillary or The Donald have to defend their
stances against reasoned libertarian critique.
The American people keep indicating they want something new, but they seem unwilling to do anything to get it.
That's the big shame.

About Me

Radical Rothbardian libertarian. I believe that government is (at best) an unnecessary evil and that our government is not at its best (and hasn't been since around 1798).
I love to travel but have a hard time coping with the aiport Heimatsicherheitdienst.